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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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dance amid their processes of disappearance
Does the highlighted sentence mean "nothing has remained of the society but shadows and spectres which they are also dancing in the processes of their disappearance (they are also disappearing)"?
As such the city is now becoming part of an electronic topology in which entry to it is marked not by a gate nor [by] an arc de triomphe but rather [by] an electronic audience system [. . .] Where once the polis inaugurated a political theatre, with its agora and its forum, now there is only a cathode-ray system where the shadows and spectres of a community dance amid their processes of disappearance.
As such the city is now becoming part of an electronic topology in which entry to it is marked not by a gate nor [by] an arc de triomphe but rather [by] an electronic audience system [. . .] Where once the polis inaugurated a political theatre, with its agora and its forum, now there is only a cathode-ray system where the shadows and spectres of a community dance amid their processes of disappearance.
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Hi That's interesting because it refers to what we're doing here. 2,500 years ago we would have met in a market place, as part of a physical community, and discussed words and meanings. Now we do it on computer screens It's true that what I'm typing here will be on page 10 of EF in about a week.
- Hi That's interesting because it refers to what we're doing here.
- 2,500 years ago we would have met in a market place, as part of a physical community, and discussed words and meanings.
- Now we do it on computer screens It's true that what I'm typing here will be on page 10 of EF in about a week.
- It's not exactly theatre.
- However, I disagree with the writer.
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That's interesting because it refers to what we're doing here. 2,500 years ago we would have met in a market place, as part of a physical community, and discussed words and meanings. Now we do it on computer screens
It's true that what I'm typing here will be on page 10 of EF in about a week. It's not exactly theatre. However, I disagree with the writer. A lot of what Cha
That's interesting because it refers to what we're doing here. 2,500 years ago we would have met in a market place, as part of a physical community, and discussed words and meanings. Now we do it on computer screens
It's true that what I'm typing here will be on page 10 of EF in about a week. It's not exactly theatre. However, I disagree with the writer. A lot of what Cha
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